[Bloat] why do people still study RED?

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 31 May 2023 16:28:14 -0600
Dave Taht via Bloat <bloat at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:

> An otherwise good paper on RED vs drop tail here:
> 
> https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.10220.pdf
> 
> Is it because we completely lack any analytical methods for taking a
> hard look at drop or marking from the head, as codel does, or the
> effect of the fq in fq_codel?
> 
> I keep hoping somehow, somewhere, someone would show up with the tools
> to explain the results I got here:
> 
> https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/juniper/
> 

Probably because that is what all the big router vendors had available in 2010.
Hopefully, they have started do something smarter in HW.